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ArticleScientific reports2021

Severe acute malnutrition morphological patterns in children under five.

Laura Medialdea, Barry Bogin, Mbeugue Thiam, Antonio Vargas, María D Marrodán, Nicole I Dossou

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Laura MedialdeaTechnical Department, Action Against Hunger (AAH) Foundation, Madrid, Spain. lmedialdea@accioncontraelhambre.org.ORCID 0000-0002-9500-7621
Barry BoginUCSD/Salk Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA), University of California San Diego, San Diego, USA.
Mbeugue ThiamLaboratoire de Recherche en Nutrition et Alimentation Humaine (LARNAH), Département de Biologie Animale, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal.
Antonio VargasTechnical Department, Action Against Hunger (AAH) Foundation, Madrid, Spain.
María D MarrodánGrupo de Investigación EPINUT, Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Madrid, Spain.
Nicole I DossouLaboratoire de Recherche en Nutrition et Alimentation Humaine (LARNAH), Département de Biologie Animale, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Current methods for infant and child nutritional assessment rely on anthropometric measurements, whose implementation faces technical challenges in low- and middle-income countries. Anthropometry is also limited to linear measurements, ignoring important body shape information related to health. This work proposes the use of 2D geometric morphometric techniques applied to a sample of Senegalese participants aged 6-59 months with an optimal nutritional condition or with severe acute malnutrition to address morphometric variations due to nutritional status. Significant differences in shape and size body changes were described according to nutritional status, resulting age, sex and allometric effect crucial factors to establish nutritional morphological patterns. The constructed discriminant functions exhibited the best classification rates in the left arm. A landmark-based template registering body shape could be useful to both assess acute malnutrition and better understand the morphological patterns that nutritional status promotes in children during their first 5 years of growth and development.

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AnthropometrySomatotypesAge FactorsBiological Variation, PopulationBody SizeChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansInfantMaleNutritional StatusNutrition AssessmentPublic Health SurveillanceSevere Acute MalnutritionSex Factors

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